Stern Algorithm

Tabrasa\- Born of Chaos.

Ferron is going to be really busy, so he is probably not going to interact with this spiral much. Though, I might have some dark ore equivalent for this event. Viridian ore?

I think Ferron is going to be investigating these spiral events, but pretty much just because of their connection to the earth's core.

@Leotamer

Ironwood is born. Favored lumber of Dwarves.

@A Lowly Wretch

Cool, cool. Looking forward to it.

I'll get a post up for Iva and move to the final chapter of White-Dawn's current arc tomorrow.

@Stern Algorithm
Oh yea, do you actually have some laws and whatnot to give to Iva? Or would ya want me to do it myself?

@Rune_Alchemist

I have ideas, if Iva is willing to inject some magical failsafes (essentially swearing upon Iva, with real magicla punishments for oathbreakers, since Iva is 'factual' knowledge, AKA Truth, I imagine swearing upon Iva to be enforceable). maybe I'll PM you with the general idea.

Tabrasa\- Born of Chaos.

For those of you who made the trek to the library, or intended to, how do you want interactions with Gammaton to go down? We can flesh out a summary here, or take it to PMs.

My 'Hero' Academia - Devil's Due

Basically, as players our intentions to behave villainously have been impeded by the following reasons: it would be a PR nightmare for the organization, or our organization is not capable enough to put us in a position where we have any sort of advantage, which just comes down to poor planning on the organizations part, or unnecessary malicious infighting.

Then you introduce White Skull who seems to be getting away with anything, despite the organization supposedly caring about PR. If he's good at making bioweapons but is psychotic, fine, but the org should keep him in the lab, and in a straight jacket when outside the lab, not in charge of a major operation. This not being the case, one can only assume the org is incompetent.

I think Verd did the right thing. Either White Skull needs to reevaluate his shenanigans, or the org has to reconsider how they use White Skull. Otherwise it's just nepotism and/or incompetence.

I see White Skull as a power fantasy that is frankly inconsistent with the RP

My 'Hero' Academia - Devil's Due

While we're at it, I suppose I'll mention these story inconsistencies that went completely unadressed:

I do want to point out a few things:

1. I spent a few posts smashing buildings and flinging debris, drywall, bricks, concrete, etc., as AoE attacks. They were auto-dodged, in fact, they were hardly mentioned in the GM posts if at all.

2. Part of the tactic was also to create 'difficult terrain' by strewing the ground with junk. Also auto-dodged or hardly mentioned.

3. Taser and explosive arrow tips are questionable. How much electrical juice can you pack into an arrow-sized warhead? Cars have been known to shrug off lightning at times, and since Dieselpunk's fuel is of the nonflammable variety, the risk of damage is minimal. And since Diesel's control of her mech body is an adaptable system, she isn't wholly dependent on electronic control; a car only really needs its battery to start the engine and power accessories (which Diesel doesn't need to operate). I can understand the explosive head doing damage since you don't need a large quantity of C4 to do serious damage, but these kids were in a training session. Unless archer's quirk is Creation, and they're testing what kind of crazy weapons he can create on the fly, then it doesn't make sense for him to be training with taser or C4 warheads, especially if they went to the trouble of emptying the gas out of all the cars as a safety precaution.

4. There doesn't seem to be a limit to these kids' quirks. Sure, speedster was 'tuckered out' after creating a hurricane, but now he's running full speed carrying a classmate.

5. They are literally fighting a giant. Not everyone can be Shingeki no Kyojin and make fighting giants easy peasy.

6. I wouldn't mind if Midnight and Dieselpunk's fight was difficult, but that it was also extremely difficult for Aya and Zion, and Verd, is questionable. I mean, where are the grapeheads and tailboys and invisigirls? Everyone's Deku, Bakugou, and Todoroki.

@Zelosse I think letting the kids get away with a booboo is fine, but the fact that we really only injured one so far, with archer's injuries still pending, I say is a poor showing on the villains' part. You don't start a reign of terror by just nicking one girl's arm. Honestly, I'm just listing these out, without any intent to actually challenge them, but in the aftermath, I think it's fair for Dieselpunk to say that White Skull's lackeys are garbage, since they did basically nothing in Midnight and Diesel's 2v3. And since a leader is only as good as his organization, Diesel's respect for White Skull will have dropped significantly. I mean, Diesel's mind might change if Zion, Aya, or Verd have glowing reviews of White Skull's villains, but I doubt it.

@Stern Algorithm

There's also this:

GM: This is a villain RP
GM: Creates dark and edgy NPCs
GM: OMG SkyFall, you're too dark and edgy!
GM: OMG Verd, don't actually kill the students!

SkyFall is punished for being an apathetic psychopath who makes bad decisions ie. disregarding hostages)
White Skull is rewarded with plot immunity for being an apathetic psychopath who makes bad decisions (poisoning all his allies)

Dieselpunk: throws debris everywhere in giant form
GM: she hits nothing
Verd: I just wanna shoot her in the leg
GM: he hits a vital blood vessel

In other words, a player character is:

1. Shadewalker's bitch
2. Captain East's bitch
3. King Sakura's bitch
4. Random bank heist thug's bitch
5. White Skull's bitch
6. UA students' bitch
7. All of the above
8. ...
9. PROFIT!!

And: this RP should be titled: Everyone Dieselpunk wants to be her little bro dies.

My 'Hero' Academia - Devil's Due

Alright skull gets stopped by midnight dies by poison because lack of antidote which skull took at the start when he and his lackies took on the way there. They were driving and away from the others, the hand doesn't know and will punish skull but he sincerely doesn't care about lives otherwise he wouldn't work directly with him. I'm not changing my verdict here because evil essentially walked up to the dragon and kicked it in the face and these are tiny parasites killing them inside fries his lungs and his body. If you want to leave because of that fine but its not changing the fact that while skull is in the wrong verd is more so he dug his own grave despite skulls straight forward use this or you're dead approach.

I'm not changing this.

@vancexentan

Wait, so all of White Skull's lackeys took the antidote before this whole thing began? Even though, at least in Midnight and Dieselpunks's attack, the lackeys were highly incompetent and didn't do jack? Then it doesn't really sound like he's culling the herd or giving every villain a fair shake, just that he's out to fuck with the villains specifically in our group and wasting Black Hands resources to do it.

So in other words, Black Hand is basically this:

Black Hand is nepotistic, and White Skull's their favorite bitch-baby and actual ability and results mean nothing.

@Stern Algorithm

Good to know where we stand going forward. Time to suck up to the higher ups, lol.

Jigokuraku Academy

Hey all, I made a slight tweak to Mari's last post. I added a music video, and changed Mari's reference of Kaito to 'Haruto-san', since she's formal that way.

My 'Hero' Academia - Devil's Due

If White Skull is supposed to "cull the herd", will the boys on top allow him to come back empty-handed? I mean, it's fine if Black Hand is nepotistic, and White Skull's their favorite bitch-baby and actual ability and results mean nothing, otherwise, isn't White Skull technically in the same boat as the others? I mean he has to at least let some of the villains survive so he has something to show, or else it's all wasted effort, a failed mission as it were. White Skull should be scrambling to save Midnight and Dieselpunk AT LEAST. There are also other villains worth saving, like the ones with Aya and Zion who were decently capable. White Skull took an idiotic Gambit with the parasites, but it wasn't foolproof.i think from a story perspective, White Skull needs to atone for his idiocy and over-the-top methods. Black Hand should be more professional than this.

@Stern Algorithm

My 'Hero' Academia - Devil's Due

If White Skull is supposed to "cull the herd", will the boys on top allow him to come back empty-handed? I mean, it's fine if Black Hand is nepotistic, and White Skull's their favorite bitch-baby and actual ability and results mean nothing, otherwise, isn't White Skull technically in the same boat as the others? I mean he has to at least let some of the villains survive so he has something to show, or else it's all wasted effort, a failed mission as it were. White Skull should be scrambling to save Midnight and Dieselpunk AT LEAST. He took an idiotic Gambit with the parasites, but it wasn't foolproof.i think from a story perspective, White Skull needs to atone for his idiocy and over-the-top methods. Black Hand should be more professional than this.

XD

@Sola

Don't worry about edge, Mushirou's personality will essentially be played for laughs. And for some reason, I was under the incorrect impression that last names weren't a thing in the pokemon world since gym leaders are only referred to by one name, but then I remembered Ash Ketchum. So Mushirou's surname will be Tokugawa.

Jigokuraku Academy

@Zelosse

Sorry for being cryptic, but Mari DID NOT throw her harmonica. She was grabbing it to calm down, but in the back of her head, she was wondering why she never tossed it. It is still on her person